Misc Books History Military Novels Biography Cartoon Complete Your Collection #1 Complete your collection of science fiction, history, military, psychology, novels, etc — books with this amazing offer! Choose from a variety of titles. These books are available in paperback format and in English language for your reading pleasure. The collection includes various authors and genres, so you’re sure to find something you’ll love. Whether you’re a fan of science fiction or just looking for a good read, this offer is perfect for you. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to expand your bookshelf and discover new worlds. 101 President Jokes by Melvin Berger1942 The Year that Doomed the Axis by Henry H Adams5000 Nights at the Opera memoirs of Sir Rudolf BingA Complete Guide to the Tarot by Eden GrayA Dictionary of Psychology by James DreverA Doughboy with the Fighting 69th by Albert M Ettinger and A Churchill EttingerA Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayA Piece of my Mind – Reflections at Sixty by Edmund WilsonA Short History of Africa by Roland Oliver and J D FageAbel by Louise BernikowAnthony & Cleopatra by William ShakespeareArt Treasures of the Louvre by Rene HuygheArts and the Man by Irwin EdmanAtrocity at Auschwitz by Ka-TzetnikBarron’s Book Notes – Hamlet by William ShakespeareBatman novelization by Craig Shaw GardnerBatman Returns novelization by Craig Shaw GardnerBe True to Your School a Diary of 1964 by Bob GreeneBeetle Bailey A Flying Beetle by Mort WalkerBeetle Bailey Beetle Mania! by Mort WalkerBeetle Bailey I’ll Throw the Book at You by Mort WalkerBeetle Bailey Is This Another Complaint by Mort WalkerBeetle Bailey I’ve Got You on My List by Mort WalkerBeetle Bailey Operation Good Times by Mort WalkerBeetle Bailey Shape Up or Ship Out by Mort WalkerBeetle Bailey Table Service by Mort WalkerBeetle Bailey We’re All in the Same Boat by Mort WalkerBehind the Cadelabra My Life With Liberace by Scott ThorsonBeyond Belief Strange, True Mysteries of the Unknown by Brad SteigerBloodworld by Laurence M JaniferBlue Meridian The Search for the Great White Shark by Peter MatthiessenBreakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut JrBrothers in Blood by Clark HowardCat Scratch Fever by Tara K HarperChronicles of Narnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C S LewisColder than Hell A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir by Joseph R OwenComplete World Bartender Guide Standard ReferenceConan the Usurper by Robert E Howard and L Sprague de CampCurious Naturalists by Niko TinbergenDragon by Clive CusslerEngland in the Twentieth Century by David ThomsonEnjoying Modern Art by Sarah NewmeyerEven A Stone Can Be A Teacher by Sheldon KoppEven Revolutionaries Like Chocolate Chip Cookies by G B TrudeauFables of Aesop — Penguin ClassicsFantastic Voyage by Isaac AsimovField Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers by Craighead DavisFirelord by Parke GodwinFrank Sinatra My Father by Nancy SinatraGeneral Psychological Theory by Sigmund FreudGerman Through Pictures Book 1 by I A Richards, W F MackeyGladiator by Philip WylieGo Ask Alice A Real Diary by AnonymousGod Bless you, Mr Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut JrGods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece by W H D RouseGolden Mare by William CorbinGolem in the Gears by Piers AnthonyGreat Dialogs of Plato translated by W H D RouseGreat Shark Stories edited by Valerie and Ron TaylorGreat Stars of Hollywood’s Golden AgeGreen Beach by James LeasorGuerrilla Submarines by Edward Dissette and Hans Chritian AdamsonHamlet Prince of Denmark by William ShakespeareHard Evidence FBI Sci-Crime by David FisherHealing for Damaged Emotions by David A SeamandsHer Name Titanic by Charles PellegrinoHorrors by Stephen King and Others edited by Charles E GrantInquest by Edward Jay EpsteinIntercept UFO by Renato VescoIsle of View by Piers AnthonyJaws – The Making of the Movie by Edith BlakeJaws 2 by Hank SearlsBeetle Bailey Take Ten by Mort WalkerCarl Sandberg’s Abraham Lincoln v3 The War Years 1864-1865Jaws The Revenge by Hank SearlsJefferson by Saul K PadoverKing Rat by James ClavellKing Solomon’s Mines by H Rider HaggardLeviathan by Thomas HobbesLewis Grizzard Don’t Bend Over in the Garden You Know Them Taters Got EyesLife and Energy by Isaac AsimovLost! by Thomas ThompsonMad’s Don Martin Comes on Strong by Don Martin and Dick De BartelaMain Currents in Sociological Thought I translated by Richard Howard and Helen WeaverMan Against Himself by Karl MenningerMan of High Fidelity – Edwin Howard Armstrong by Lawrence LessingMargery Wilson’s Pocket Book of Etiquette The Modern Social GuideMark Twain Letters from the Earth edited by Bernard DeVotoMatt Helm – The Intriguers by Donald HamiltonMatt Helm The Threateners by Donald HamiltonMcTeague by Frank NorrisMeeting at Potsdam by Charles L Mee JrMemory Prime STO 42 by Gar and Judith Reeves-Stevens (5)Mickey Mantle my Favorite Summer 1956 by Mantle and Phil PepeMusashi bk1 The Way of the Samuri by Eiji YosikawaMusashi bk2 The Art of War by Eiji YosikawaMusashi bk3 The Way of the Sword by Eiji YosikawaMusashi bk5 The Way of Life and Death by Eiji YosikawaMy Twelve Years with John F Kennedy by Evelyn LincolnMy Young Years by Arthur RubinsteinNow Thrive the Armourers by Robert O HollesObsession by John Douglas and Mark OlshakerOne More Mission – Oliver North Returns to Vietnam by Oliver North and David RothOne-L by Scott TurowOpus 21 by Philip WyliePanzer Leader by Heinz GuderianPatriot Games by Tom ClancyPower Play by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth ScarboroughPresident Fu Manchu by Sax RohmerProtagoras and Meno by PlatoProtestant Catholic Jew by Will HerbergQuality is Free The Art of Making Quality Certain by Philip B CrosbyRedwall by Brian JacquesRoget’s 21st Century Thesaurus in Dictionary FormSea Raider Atlantis by Ulrich Mohr and A V SellwoodShadow by Antony Melville-RossShakespearean Tragedy by A C BradleySharks – Attacks on Man by George A Lland Sharks and Little Fish by Wolfgang OttSilent Warrior by Richard P HendrickSmooth Operator by Clifford L LinedeckerSon – A Psycopath and his Victims by Jack OlsenSophocles – The Three Theban Plays translated by Robert FaglesSpencer Tracy The Candid On and Off Camera Story by Larry SwindellStilwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara W TuchmanStirling’s Desert Raiders by Virginia CowlesTarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice BurroughsTen Days that Shook the World by John ReedThe Acquisitors v2 by Peter C NewmanThe Admiral’s Wolfpack by Jean NoliThe Age of Chivalry The Legends of Charlemagne by BullfinchThe Ambassadors by Henry JamesThe American by Henry JamesThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Battle of Midway by Ira PeckThe Benjamin Franklin Sampler – Selections from his writingsThe Big ‘E’ by Comdr Edward P StaffordThe Biological Time Bomb by Gordon Rattray TaylorThe Bog People Iron-Age Man Preserved by R V GlobThe Caesar Code by SimmelThe Church by Hans KungThe Complete Short Stories of Mark TwainThe Day After Roswell by Col Philip J CorsoThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonThe Disappearance by Philip WylieThe Fighters by Colin WillockThe Fires of Jubilee – Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion by Stephen B OatesThe First and the Last by Adolf GallandThe Frugal Gourmet by Jeff SmithThe Good Earth by Pearl S BuckThe Great Commanders of World War II v3 The Americans by Charles E Pfannes and Victor A SalamoneThe Great Divorce by C S LewisThe Heathens Primitive Man and His Religions by William HowellsThe Hidden Flower by Pearl S BuckThe Human Body – Its Structure and Operation by Isaac AsimovThe Incredible Krupps by Norbert MuhlenThe Inferno by Dante translated by John GiardiThe Jaws Log by Carl GottliebThe Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingThe Kennedy Men – Three Generations of Sex, Scandal and Secrets by Nellie BlyThe Kennedys Dynasty and Disaster 1848-1984 by John H DavisThe Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stepan LorantThe Marine Raiders by Edwin P HoytThe Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls by A Powell DaviesThe Miracle of Language by Charlton LairdThe Nuts Among the Berries by Ronald M DeutschThe Other Mrs Kennedy by Jerry OppenheimerThe Preppy Murder Trial by Bryna TaubmanThe Pueblo Incident by Rear Admiral Daniel V GalleryThe Ragman’s Son an Autobiography by Kirk DouglasThe Reckoning by David HalberstamThe Romance of Atlantis by Taylor CaldwellThe Romance of Leonardo da Vinci by Dmitri MerezhkovskyThe Smuggled Atom Bomb by Philip WylieThe Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Story of Mankind by Hendrik van LoonThe Story of Philosophy by Will DurantThe Terminal Man by Michael CrichtonThe Turner Diaries by Andrew MacdonaldThe Ultra Secret by F W WinterbothamThe Universe From Flat Earth to Quasar by Isaac AsimovThe Unknown Battle Metz, 1944 by Anthony KempThe White Dragon by Anne McCaffreyThe World Almanac Book of the Strange by the editors of The World AlmanacThe Yanks are Coming by Pierce G FredericksThere’s a New World Coming by Hal LindseyThomas Jefferson An Intimate History by Fawn M BrodieTo Appomattox Nine April Days, 1865 by Burke DavisTo Glory we Steer by Alexander KentTo The Solar System and Back by Isaac AsimovTomorrow! Tomorrow! Tomarrow! by Philip WylieTomorrow’s Soldier by David AlexanderTriumph by Philip WylieTrivia Mania – Movies by Xavier EinsteinTrivia Mania – Science and Nature by Xavier EinsteinTwo of a Kind The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O’BrienTwo Spanish Picturesque Novels translated by Michael AlpertTwo Worlds – To Understand Today’s HeadlinesUnderstanding Physics The Electron, Proton, and Neutron by Isaac AsimovVietnam History Documents and Opinions edit by Marvin E GettlemanW C Fields by HimselfWashington The Indispensable Man by James Thomas FlexnerWe Led The Way – Darby’s Rangers by William O Darby and Willian H BaumerWe Love You , Snoopy by Charles M SchulzWhirlwind by James ClavellWielding a Red Sword by Piers AnthonyWords Most Often Mispelled and Mispronounced by Ruth Gleeson and James ColvinYeager by Chuck Yeager and Leo JanosZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M PirsigZen Macrobiotic Cooking by Michel Abehsera Note — all shipping is media mail with combined shipping — the first book at $4.13 with each additional book adding $0.85 to the total shipping cost. cdm–Some notes on book collecting TL;DNR is a relatively new shortcut to understanding a modern phenomenon – many or most people have short attention spans. It becomes a joke when the N is left off – indicating that it is comical when you actually take the time to read a long article – or in this case – a long Ebay description. If for whatever reason you don’t have the time or stamina to read long articles or descriptions – just stop here – but if you are interested in some tips and info on book collecting – read on. Understanding the Ebay search app. For some strange reason the search engine initially searches only the title of the Ebay offering – but after the first search – on a computer – a check box appears making further searches of the title and description possible. We create our book offerings using ‘variable listing’ which creates a pull down list for the books. It allows us to offer many books in the same offering but the list allows only a small amount of text for each item listed. Note that the search engine will not search the pull down list. Because of this limitation we put the entire list of the offered items in the description. In the case of a list of books — the entire name of the book and its author(s) can be listed. So with this bit of info in mind – to find a specific book title you may need to do the search twice – with the description box checked on the second search. You should also like to know what a book one of our listings is worth – we have a method for that also. Two devices will be necessary for this method – it can be two cell phones or a phone and a computer. Just open our listing and get to the book you are interested in and display the cover on one of the devices. Use the Ebay app on a cell phone and click on the camera icon. A kind of target will appear – center it on the picture of the book cover and take a pic. The Ebay app will then open up other listings of this book along with their prices. Note that this camera app will not find info in the descriptions or item list either and apparently just does optical character recognition of the text in the pic and searches the titles. Note also that it usually finds books that are listed as one book offerings – books in lots or multiple offerings such as ours will not be found. Odd text may not be recognized and I suspect some strange cover designs will also confuse the app. Some of our books will not find a match – which may indicate that there are no current listings of the book – meaning that the book may be rare or valuable. Note that ‘active’ listings are usually higher than the same item in ‘completed’ listings as the sellers are trying to get what they ‘think’ the item is worth. Their valuation may be wrong and it takes all kinds to make a world. Check out ‘Dunning-Kruger effect’ on YouTube to understand the phenomenon. Note also that a book usually costs $4 or so to ship and you must add the book price and its shipping cost in the listing – or if free shipping is offered you should realize the book and shipping is combined. We offer combined shipping on our books and depending on the weight of the books – multiple purchased books will add a dollar or so to the single book cost for each additional book purchased. Checking on book values can be done by clicking on the ‘advanced’ link on the computer version of the ebay search and searching again with completed items checked. This will give you ‘sold’ listings for the item you are searching on – but again this is limited to single item listings and is also time limited in that the search is only for the last 90 days of Ebay sales. Note that on any item there will be ‘auction’ sales and most experienced sellers will have found that many items go for a very low bid which does not reflect the true value of the book. Who has the time to find auction items which are only up for one week? – TL;DNR applies here – if the serious buyers are not seeing the item then it goes for peanuts. You will see no auctions on our Ebay store. A more scholarly method to find book values is to use Google search which will find the book on Amazon or some of the other online bookstores such as AbeBooks or Biblio.com. These sites have their own search engines you can use. For the pinnacle of book value sites you can subscribe to Worthpoint which somehow tracks collectible items sold on Ebay and other sites and will give you the real value of the item or book. First editions – I suspect a good percentage of our books are first editions but that does not mean they are rare. Rare and valuable first editions are usually hard back (and even leather bound) and the rarity is in the limited number of copies printed in the ‘first’ edition. A first edition of what is commonly called a ‘mass market’ paperback can be quite a few books – meaning the book is ‘first edition’ but not rare. Also note that paperbacks are usually a secondary printing with the first editions coming out in hardback – there can be a first edition of the paperback. Read the page at the front of the book which will usually list the publishing history. For me some of the book covers are a work of art – they were produced for the cover from an actual painting commissioned to an accomplished artist. Do a search on ‘famous book cover artists’ and note some of the names. Some of the more collectible books I will be offering can be collected on the basis of the cover artist – there are numerous databases such as ‘isfdb.org/’ – for Science Fiction and Fantasy books. Six of the Greatest Science Fiction Cover Artists of All Time Richard M. Powers. The Picasso of Sci-fi Art. … Chris Foss. The Pioneer of Futuristic Visions. … H.R. Giger. The Mind Behind the Xenomorph. … Boris Vallejo. The Fantastical Realist. … Kelly Freas. The Golden Age Gem. … John Berkey. The Cosmic Visionary. Do an image search on any of these artists and note many of the images are of book covers. Do a search on the ISFDB database and you will find huge lists of the book covers these artists have created. You may have noticed that most book covers currently published have just large block letters created with a word processor – not hand created text by an artist – and instead of a beautiful painting there is some photoshop image with whatever now passes as an artistic flair such as sepia colors or some type of fading. Check out this web page ‘bookriot.com/book-sizes /’ – note the pic at the top of the first page – all of those books have photo shopped and word processor created covers. Note the sizes listed in the article and why they are paperback – only books expected to sell well are made in hardback these days – they say as many as half the produced books do not sell and go back to the publisher. What I collected in the 60 years I have been accumulating books – is mostly those with the artistic covers and in the vintage sizes. The original paperback books were shorter in height than those printed later and are easily spotted as vintage. Many of the older books had the page edges dyed red or green – this is another item to consider. Book sizes and coverings are other items to consider in collecting. The original paperback books were produced by Pocketbooks and even had unique serial numbers – I have a few of them in my collection and they will eventually be offered up on our Ebay store. Some series were intended for reading by our overseas military during WWII and are so indicated on the covers. Some publishers have a numbering system for their vintage books – Ace books for example – you could collect the entire series by the numbers. I have one book that appears to have been well read and the binding destroyed – a craftsman drilled tiny holes along the spine and made a sewed binding – I suspect this occurred on an old navy ship with a machine shop? Many have been put in wraps (a cellophane wrapping of the entire cover and back ‘wrapped’. Some were done by schools and used book stores and others were produced with a noticeable thin cellophane layer by the publisher. You could collect based on any of these criteria but finding them may be difficult. The spine design is sometimes unique and very striking – with a small pic or a colorful design for the entire series. One of my favorites is the DAWsf yellow spine design – I found them irresistible and many are in my collection. Look up Laser Books and you will find a highly collectible set of science fiction books produced for a short time by Harlequin books. Note: Laser Books was a short-lived (1975-1977) paperback SF imprint of Canadian publisher Harlequin Books. All the covers were painted by Kelly Freas, ISBN Prefix 037372, as they were all SF books, and numbered sequentially. Notice the prices usually printed on the book covers – they indicate the era that edition of the book was published – many of my books have a 35 cent price reflecting the cost of paperbacks in the 1960s. The price has gone up steadily since then and many now are around $10 or more for a paperback. Another issue to consider for collecting is ‘embossed’ covers – those with the book title and other artifacts physically raised up on the covers by some type of textured press – they are not very common and are usually only on some of the newer books. One rare type of cover is one where the entire front, back, and spine are one commissioned work of art and the cover is kind of a landscape encompassing the entire book and spine – pretty impressive. Many of my books do not have ISBN numbers – ISBN numbers were introduced in 1970. Any book printed before 1970 will not have an assigned ISBN – but reprintings after 1970 will probably have them.